Statshot: Snow Days, Educated Wives, Cat People

Feb 21, 2014 2:31 pm ET

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By David Goldenberg

This week in statshot: While the Northeast has been hammered by snowstorms, the West has had one of its driest winters ever; in about 40% of married couples in America, one spouse is more educated than the other — for the first time, that spouse is more likely to be female; and Americans own 83.3 million dogs and 95.6 million cats, but far more American families own dogs than cats.